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...stian supremacy over the most savage lands of the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings among wild beasts and savage people in heroic efforts for a reclamation of all lands to civilization, and recording a description of the riot of murder, pillage and inhumanity which characterized the pirates, marooners and buccaneers who ravaged the spanish mai...

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... -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilc...

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... OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAG... ...HING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION, AND ... ...y -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- Wonderful lands and fountains -- Astounding adventures of... ...sea-birds -- Discovery of a new world -- A wondrously profitable commerce -- A northwest passage -- The Romans pass to China by a north route -- Destr... ...APTER XXXVI. Cavendish's voyages around the world. -- Glory of the Elizabethan Age -- The spirit of discovery animates England -- Heroism of Cavendish... ...e had its beginning. We are told that in a very early period of antiquity, the age of which cannot be set down, there existed on the shores of the Red... ...im as depicted in the novels and romances of Dana and Marryatt and others; his bronzed visage, his eyes habitually half closed to elude the mingled gl... ...easure to the antiquarian and the story teller. In the busy brain beneath that bronzed and wrinkled front he has stowed away ten thousand odds and end... ...n with amazement at the military procession as it sped swiftly by. On elevated sites, commanding lovely prospects, might be seen beautiful villas of r...

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Excerpt: North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope.

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...D CAMP WOOD......................................................................................................... 114 CHAPTER VII: THE ARMY OF THE NORTH..................................................................................................... 135 CHAPTER VIII: BACK TO BOSTON.........................................................................................

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...o by Anthony Trollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Penns... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...y-shop. When I saw an ancient, dusty white hat, with some peculiar append- age to it which was unintelligible, it was no more to me than any other old... ...own. Of all the statues on horseback which I ever saw, either in marble or bronze, this is by far the worst and most ridiculous. The horse is most abs... ...ok upon the elected representatives of any nation as the choice men of the age. Those muddy, clattering dragoons, sitting at the corners of the street... ...than any other State which I visited. Round Louisville there are beautiful sites for houses, of which advantage in some instances has been taken. But,... ... the theory of popular representation. It reminds one of the old days when Yorkshire returned two members, and Rutlandshire two also. And the discrepa...

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...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The World Set Free by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...is doing more…. A quarter of a million years ago the utmost man was a sav- age, a being scarcely articulate, sheltering in holes in the rocks, armed w... ... changed. That keen chisel of necessity which sharp- ened the tiger’s claw age by age and fined down the clumsy Orchippus to the swift grace of the ho... ...ions of intellectual routine and the habitual life, in Europe, in America, North and South, in Japan, in China, and all about the world. It was in 191... ...tor traffic, pulsating as the current alternated between east and west and north and south. Above rose great frontages of in- tricate rather than beau... ...mounted by the frozen gestures of monstrous cranes rose over the excavated sites of vanished Victorian buildings. This framework attracted Barnet’s at... ...ted that with such a motor barge as ours it would be possible to reach the Yorkshire coast within four-and- twenty hours. But this idea I overruled be... ... a twentieth- century rendering of mediaevalism, mediaevalism in steel and bronze and sham stone and opaque glass. Against the sky it splashed a confu...

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...lly published under the Nominis umbra of The Author of Waverley; and the circumstances which rendered it impossible for the writer to continue longer in the possession of his incognito were communicated in 1827, in the Introduction to the first series of Chronicles of the Canongate, consisting (besides a biographical sketch of the imaginary chronicler) of three tales, enti...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Chronicles of the Canongate by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvan... ...tly conscious of a better title to it. It was not until I had attained the age of thirty years that I made any serious attempt at distinguishing mysel... ...try—they would find that it was referred to by all Frenchmen as the golden age of the drama there. And also in England in the time of Queen Elizabeth ... ...ke those of some conjured demon, within a circle, which, “beginning at the northern gate of the King’s Park, thence running northways, is bounded on t... ...ysic Gar- dens, etc. It then follows the wall of the churchyard, joins the north west wall of St Ann’s Yards, and going east to the clackmill-house, t... ...his opinion, which he very ably defends and illus- trates, having been the sites of Druidical temples.] The paint- ings of the saloon came from abroad... ... some Italian and Flemish pictures of admitted authenticity, a few genuine bronzes, and other objects of curiosity, which her brothers or herself had ... ...pics but stots and kyloes, and Harry Wakefield could never bring his broad Yorkshire tongue to utter a single word of Gaelic. It was in vain Robin spe...

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...Excerpt: Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his ...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Dombey & Son by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...him brown while he was very new. Dombey was about eight-and-forty years of age. Son about eight-and-forty minutes. Dombey was rather bald, rather red,... ...then by the sudden whisking into the room of a lady rather past the middle age than otherwise but dressed in a very juvenile manner, particularly as t... ...ation does after all. And the parlour couldn’t bear straighter either. Due north. Not the twentieth part of a point either way.’ ‘Halloa, Uncle Sol!’ ... ...alloon? There you are. Down in a bell? There you are. D’ye want to put the North Star in a pair of scales and weigh it? He’ll do it for you.’ It may b... ...The bookcase, glazed and locked, repudiated all familiarities. Mr Pitt, in bronze, on the top, with no trace of his celestial origin’ about him, guard... ...y streets and buildings, railway hangers-on and para- 229 Charles Dickens sites, and flatterers out of all calculation. There was even rail- way time... ...rfect illumination there. The pride with which the Captain looked upon the bronzed cheek and the courageous eyes of his recovered boy; with which he s...

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...Excerpt: Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his ...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Dombey & Son Volume 1 by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania Stat... ...him brown while he was very new. Dombey was about eight-and-forty years of age. Son about eight-and-forty minutes. Dombey was rather bald, rather red,... ...then by the sudden whisking into the room of a lady rather past the middle age than otherwise but dressed in a very juvenile manner, particularly as t... ...ation does after all. And the parlour couldn’t bear straighter either. Due north. Not the twentieth part of a point either way.’ ‘Halloa, Uncle Sol!’ ... ...alloon? There you are. Down in a bell? There you are. D’ye want to put the North Star in a pair of scales and weigh it? He’ll do it for you.’ It may b... ...The bookcase, glazed and locked, repudiated all familiarities. Mr Pitt, in bronze, on the top, with no trace of his celestial origin’ about him, guard... ...y streets and buildings, railway hangers-on and para- 229 Charles Dickens sites, and flatterers out of all calculation. There was even rail- way time... ... that gentleman into his confidence; merely informing him that a friend in Yorkshire had written to him (Mr T oots) for his opinion on such a question...

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... and a Patrick, hardly a distinction of him until we know him, had bound himself, by purchase of a railway-ticket, to travel direct to the borders of North Wales, on a visit to a notable landowner of those marches, the Squire Adister, whose family-seat was where the hills begin to lift and spy into the heart of black mountains. Examining his ticket with an apparent curiosi...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Celt and Saxon by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...mself, by purchase of a railway-ticket, to travel direct to the borders of North Wales, on a visit to a notable landowner of those marches, the Squire... ...ells had in old days played the adventurer and charmed a maid of a certain age into yielding her hand to him; and the lady was the squire of Earlsfont... ...goal of enterprise, the gallant of- ficer retired from the service nor did north-western England put much to his credit the declaration of his wife’s ... ...ndly put for the sake of promoting conversation with a companion of unripe age by a gentleman who had whole- somely excited his blood to run. They wer... ...t and can’t, poor t’ other must, or the union’s a mockery. She was cast in bronze at her birth, if she wasn’t cut in bog-root. Anyhow, you’ll study he... ...est to the nation of the best of these pictures of Old John, by a very old Yorkshire collector, makes it milk for all 113 George Meredith time, a per... ... scoria in the island, before he stretches his inanimate length, his para- sites upon him. The theme is chosen and must be treated as a piper involved...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin, the Pennsylvania St... ...viewed from the sea, wears a desolate aspect. The volcanic fires of a past age, and the scorching heat of a tropical sun, have in most places rendered... ...e V oyage of the Beagle of dust which fell on a vessel a few hundred miles northward of these islands. Professor Ehrenberg* finds that this dust consi... ...om the coast of Africa, and at points sixteen hun- dred miles distant in a north and south direction. In some dust which was collected on a vessel thr... ...lder series: the height of the cliffs thus affording a rude measure of the age of the streams. During our stay, I observed the habits of some marine a... ... the sur- face, there were several other groups of fragments, the original sites of which without doubt were near. All occurred in a level area of shi... ...able; if you could have turned one of these young Indians into a statue of bronze, his drap- ery would have been perfectly graceful. One day I rode to... ...nd were free. What a fine picture one can form in one’s mind, — the naked, bronze-like figure of the old man with his little boy, riding like a Mazepp...

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... at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a nation...

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...Middlemarch George Eliot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brook... ...entleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand in hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the cou... ...estate, and making her long all the more for the time when she would be of age and have some command of money for generous schemes. She was regarded a... ...e Rector’s wife, and the small group of gentry with whom he visited in the northeast corner of Loamshire. So Miss Brooke presided in her uncle’s house... ...ds and dispositions not less unhesitatingly than other young ladies of her age. Signs are small measurable things, but interpre tations are illimitab... ...hich could then be pulled down, so that new ones could be built on the old sites. Sir James said “Exactly,” and she bore the word remarkably well. Cer... ...mphrey. He talks well.” “Yes. Mr. Brooke says he is one of the Lydgates of Northumberland, really well connected. One does not expect it in a practiti... ...rothea all her life continued to see the vastness of St. Peter’s, the huge bronze canopy, the excited intention in the attitudes and garments of the p... ...from it. “‘I am immediately otherwise engaged,’ she says. ‘I am going into Yorkshire with Sir James and Lady Chettam; and the conclusions I come to ab...